Reverse Dictionary: FASTIDIOUS

ADJECTIVES
► ABRODIETICAL over-refined or self-indulgent, esp. in regard to diet; feeding or eating daintily; delicate, fastidious, finicky → 1625 obs.
​► BELLY-PROUD fastidious with regard to food → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CADDLE dainty, fastidious → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CADDLING dainty, fastidious, delicate, accustomed to be petted → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CRANKY overly fastidious, fussy, particular → 1965 Amer. dial.
► CURIOUS difficult to satisfy; particular; fastidious → c1380 obs.
► DAINSHACH fastidious, particular; fussy about food → 1920 Sc.
► DAINTY-CHAPPED fastidious or particular as to eating and food → 19C obs.
► DANGEROUS difficult to please; particular, ticklish; fastidious, nice, dainty, delicate → c1386 obs.
► DAUNCH fastidious, dainty, overnice, squeamish, over-particular; sensitive, jealous of one’s own dignity → c1460 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► DAUNCY ► DONCY ► DONSIE ► DONSY ► DOUNSY fastidious; lacking appetite; squeamish → 1805 Amer. dial.
► DENCH ► DENSH  dainty, fastidious, squeamish → 1828 Eng. dial.
► DENSH-GOBBED of a dainty fastidious taste or appetite; affected in speaking → 19C Eng. dial.
► DENSH-STOMACHED of a dainty fastidious taste or appetite → 19C Eng. dial.
► DENTICAL dainty, fastidious → 1894 Eng. dial.
► DIVERSOME fanciful, hard to please, fastidious; squeamish → 1865 Eng. dial.
► FADDLING trifling, over-particular, fastidious → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FADDY fastidious, fidgety, over-particular; full of crotchets or whims → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FASHIOUS ► FASHOUS fractious, peevish, fretting, esp. of children; fussy, fastidious → 1736 Sc.
► FASTIDIOSE fastidious → 1727 obs.
► FEAT affected, excessively dainty or fastidious → 1540 obs. exc. arch. & Eng. dial.
► FIDDY-FADDY fastidious, over-nice; trivial, elaborate → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FIKY fastidious, difficult to please, fidgety → 1823 Sc.
► FINE-HAIRED cultivated; fastidious; too particular → 1873 Amer. dial.
► FINICKING fussy, fastidious, unduly particular about trifles; finicky → 1872 Amer. dial.
► FINICKITY fussy, fastidious, finicky → 1969 Amer. dial.
► FITIFIED eccentric, peculiar; hysterical, nervous; erratic, fastidious → 1912 Amer. dial.
► HINKY snobbish; haughty; conceited; aloof; fastidious → 1967 Amer. sl., orig. African-American
► KECKEN-HEARTED squeamish; loathing the sight of food; dainty; over-fastidious; faint-hearted → 1901 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MAISK prim, fastidious; applied esp. to one who has to be coaxed to eat → 1929 Sc.
► MARCHPANE dainty, fastidious → 1598
► MEALY-MOUTHED dainty, fastidious in eating → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MEESK prim, fastidious; applied esp. to one who has to be coaxed to eat → 1929 Sc.
► MIMPSY-PIMSY dainty, fastidious, fanciful, affected → 1892 Eng. dial.
► MINCY over-particular, finicky or overly fastidious, usually about eating → 1913 Amer. dial.
► NASTY-CLEAN overly tidy; excessively fastidious → 1943 Amer. dial.
► NASTY-NEAT very neat, overly tidy; excessively fastidious; too particular or fussy; old-fashioned → 1916 Amer. dial.
► NASTY-NICE very neat, overly tidy; excessively fastidious; too particular or fussy; old-fashioned → 1873 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► NEAT-NICE very neat, overly tidy; excessively fastidious; too particular or fussy; old-fashioned → 1951 Amer. dial.
► NESH dainty, fastidious, squeamish; scrupulous → 1839 Eng. dial.
► NICE-NASTY very neat, overly tidy; excessively fastidious; too particular or fussy; old-fashioned → 1965 Amer. dial.
► NIFFNAFFY fastidious; trifling → 1785 sl.
► NIFFY-NAFFY fussy, fastidious, finicking → 1923 Sc. 
► OGERTFUL dainty, affected, fastidious, affecting delicacy of taste, squeamish → 1754 Sc.
► PENSY of appetite: fastidious, delicate → 1866 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PERJINK fussy, fastidious, prim; neat → 1889 Sc.
► PRECIOUS over-fastidious, over-refined → E18
► PRICK-ME-DAINTY finicky in dress, language, and behaviour; affectedly dainty; over-precise; excessively particular or fastidious → 1583 chiefly Sc.
► PRIMPY fastidious, finicky; affected → 1859 Amer. dial.
► QUAINT dainty, fastidious, nice; prim → 1483 obs.
► QUAUNCH squeamish, fastidious → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUEEM prim, affectedly nice; over-fastidious → 1924 Sc.
► QUINTY like an old maid; fussy, fastidious → 1916 Amer. dial.
► SAUCY dainty, fastidious as to food → 1886 Eng. dial.
► SCHLECKERIG fastidious in the choice of food → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SCRUMBOTIOUS first-class, nice, fastidious; particular, excellent, fine, delightful → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SCRUMPTIOUS fastidious, particular; hard to please → M19 sl., orig. US
► SKIG fastidious → a1300 obs.
► SKYMOUS squeamish, fastidious in eating; indifferent → 1875 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SNIFFY scornful, disdainful; haughtily fastidious; fault-finding → 1871 sl.
► SNIFTY disdainful; haughtily fastidious; fault-finding → 1871 Amer. sl.
► SNIPTIOUS spruce, attractive; fastidious; lively, pert → 1827 Amer. dial.
► SQUEAMOUS distant, disdainful, fastidious → 1325
► TAFFETA florid, bombastic; over-dressed; dainty, delicate, fastidious → 1588
► TAFFETY florid, bombastic; over-dressed; dainty, delicate, fastidious, particular → 1719
► TICKLE fastidious, dainty, squeamish; easily upset or disordered → c1456 now Eng. dial.
► TIFFETY-TAFFETY florid, bombastic; overdressed; dainty, delicate, fastidious → 1595 obs.
► TIMID finicky or overly fastidious, usually about eating → 1881 Amer. dial.
► WANTON fastidious or dainty in appetite → 1530 obs.
► WEAMISH squeamish, fastidious → 1571 obs.
► YEOVERY ► YUVVERY fastidious with regard to food → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► CURIOSITY undue fastidiousness as to food, clothing, matters of taste and behaviour → c1386 obs.
► DAINTY daintiness; fastidiousness → 1590 obs.
► FADDLE fussiness, fastidiousness → 1885 Eng. dial.
► FASTIDIOSITY fastidiousness → 1704

NOUNS – PERSON
► ABDELI a hypocrite, a canting preacher; a fastidious or false zealot → 1892 Anglo-Indian sl. (Bk.)
► FAD one who is difficult to please in trifles; a fussy, over-particular person; a fastidious person → 1877 Eng. dial.  (Bk.)
► FADDLE a fanciful person, either fastidious in trifles or devoted to some particular hobby; a fussy, over-particular person; one full of whims and fancies → 1881 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FIDDLE-FIKE ► FIDDLE-MA-FYKE a trifler; a fastidious, over-punctilious person → 1825 Sc.
► FIDFAD one who gives fussy attention to trifles; one who is over-nice and particular; a fastidious person → 1754
► MAWK a person who is squeamish and fastidious → 1889 Eng. dial.
► MIMMOCK a person with a dainty and fastidious appetite or manner → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NICELING a very fastidious or overnice person or critic; a hair-splitter → 1549 obs.
► NICE NELLIE a respectable or fastidious person, not necessarily a woman; also used ironically → 1936 US sl.
► OLD MAID a person with the alleged characteristics of an elderly spinster, such as primness, prudery, fastidiousness, etc. → Aust. sl.. derogatory
► PERJINK a fastidious or very neat person → 1995 Sc.
► QUIDDLE a fussy, over-particular, or fastidious person; one hard to satisfy in trifling matters of diet, etc.; one who wastes his energy about trifles → 1856 Eng. & Amer. dial.

PHRASES
► A MITTENED CAT CATCHES NO MICE, A too much fastidiousness retards success → 19C Eng. dial.
► A MITTENED CAT NEVER WAS A GOOD HUNTER too much fastidiousness retards success → 1641 Sc.
► MARRY COME UP, MY DIRTY COUSIN an expression used to those who are very fastidious or who assume a distinction to which they have no claim → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► KECK to refuse with disdain; to be fastidious → 1901 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► KECKEN to decline with loathing, aversion, or disgust, as offered food; to be fastidious → 1901 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MIPE to be fastidious or dainty in eating; to have no appetite for food → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MIPUS to be fastidious or dainty in eating; to have no appetite for food → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TAIVER to eat sparingly and without appetite; to toy with one’s food; to be fastidious about eating → 1929 Sc.